[CPEO-BIF] "‘Toxic plume’ from gas station imperils Walnut Creek [California] development plans, legal complaint alleges"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘Toxic plume’ from gas station imperils Walnut Creek development plans, legal complaint alleges
The owner of Dutch Girl Cleaners wants the land cleaned up

By KATIE LAUER 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
March 8, 2025 

WALNUT CREEK — A “toxic plume” at a gas station on Mt. Diablo Boulevard has contaminated the neighborhood’s air and soil, according to a February legal complaint filed by the former owner of an eco-friendly dry cleaning business next door.

The complaint claims that regional environmental agencies failed to hold oil companies accountable for remediating their land for decades, and that the environmental viability of future, transit-oriented development eyed for plaintiff Steve Depper’s property is now threatened. But Depper said the defendants, Marathon Petroleum Corporation and Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company, who have both owned the property, are ultimately responsible.

The now-75-year-old Depper opened up Dutch Girl Cleaners in 2002, branching off from his family’s third-generation business to offer greener cleaning solutions less than a mile west of downtown Walnut Creek, located near the junction of Interstate 680 and Highway 24.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/08/legal-complaint-alleges-toxic-plume-from-gas-station-ruined-walnut-creek-development-plans


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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